Le Duc Anh

Le Duc Anh (born 1 December 1920) was the President of Vietnam from 1992 to 1997 and the commander of Vietnamese forces in Cambodia during the 1980s.

Biography
Le Duc Anh was born on 1 December 1920 in Hue Province of Vietnam, then a part of French Indochina. From 1964 to 1975 he was the deputy general and Chief-of-Staff of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, and he was one of the generals during the fall of Saigon. Le commanded Vietnamese troops in Cambodia in the 1980s to prevent the Khmer Rouge from re-entering the country, and he became President of Vietnam in 1992. In 1991 he restored good relations with the People's Republic of China, but a stroke in 1996 forced him to resign the presidency.